Usually the object in racing horses is to exhibit speed; but the "slow race" is for the slowest horse--the one which is longest in hobbling a mile.
The Saturn, leading the British line, opened fire upon the Goethe, the slowest and rearmost, as well as the biggest of the German battleships.
If, however, we assume a motion of the earth, the rapidity of the periods is very well preserved; from the slowest sphere of Saturn we come to the wholly motionless fixed stars.
He muttered some words which we could not understand, and then he opened his mouth, which was very large, and pointed down it intelligibly to the slowest comprehension.
The slowest man on our farm, after eating two days' dinner, was a swallow with a nest to feed, compared to any one I saw throughout the east of Europe.
On the contrary Demokritus pronounced the Moon to be the slowest mover of all; slower than the Sun, because the Sun was farther from the Earth and nearer to the outermost or sidereal sphere.
But nobody knows why it is that the fourslowest players in every club always manage to hook up in a sort of permanent alliance.
They were without doubt and beyond argument the slowest and most exasperating quartette of obstructionists that ever laid their middle-aged stomachs behind the line of a putt.
Now, Professor Rankine has laid down the proposition that, other things being equal, that propeller must be most efficient which sends the largest quantity of water astern at the slowest speed.
If our readers have followed us so far, they will now understand the bearing of Rankine's proposition, that that propeller is best which moves the greatest quantity of water astern at the slowest speed.
You would say he was not a man who would ever catch anything, not even an epidemic; but he was a person whom diseases would be likely to overtake, even the slowest of slow fevers.
And, speaking generally, the slowest growths, both in nature and in politics, are the most permanent.
He has avenues to God Hid from men of northern brain, Far beholding, without cloud, What these with slowest steps attain.
The best but slowest plan is to fix them in mechanically by wire or white lead.
In crossing sand, the heaviest and slowestelephants should go first, preceded by a light, nimble pioneer.
Darwin reckons that the elephant, the slowest breeder, if allowed to go on unchecked, and to live his allotted term of years, would in five centuries produce fifteen millions of elephants from one pair.
Were this not the case, the slowest breeders in existence would soon cover the earth so as to occupy every inch of space.
Give the slowest exposures your subject will allow.
Observe that this Composition be of the swiftest and largest deep Mouth'd Dog, the slowest and middle-siz'd, and the shortest Legged slender Dog.
The rate of progress of a fleet is decided by the speed of the slowest vessel, so up here one ought to work as if the whole mass was as cowardly as the greatest coward in the force.
Then we turned our faces once more toward the north and took our flight again at the highest speed of our slowest beast.
This double burden soon proved too much for my already overtaxed beast, and thus our speed was terribly diminished, for the others would proceed no faster than the slowest of us could go.
In each case the stakes which moved quickest lay upon the dirty portion of the trunk-stream, far to the east of the line of junction of the Glacier du Geant, which in fact moved slowest of all.
This is the slowest rate which we observed upon either the Mer de Glace or its tributaries.
The speed of the fleet is necessarily that of its slowest member; the faster ships, therefore, have continually a reserve, which they may at any moment bring into play.
The wind was light; it was necessary to go at something below the speed of the slowest ship, since all must retain the power to shoot ahead if required, and so they filed slowly along at about three and a half miles an hour.
There are few animals that can pass a rabbit in a hundred yards, even our cottontail, the slowestof his family.
Of all those that I met, this particular beech with the centuries behind it and the centuries yet to come, was my special choice, for the beech is the slowest growing of all our trees.
In case of materials lighter than water the transporting power does not depend on the velocity, and logs of wood, for instance, are floated on to the sea on the slowest as well as on the most rapid currents.
The slowest process when multiplied by the immense time in which it is carried on produces great results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slowest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
